jdhmnovel Chapter 157 One Bag of Sugar for One Life
Chapter 157 One Bag of Sugar for One Life
Although Zhou Jue and Jing Kang were submerged in the blood pool with only their heads above the surface and unable to move, they were not deaf. Upon hearing this, their expressions immediately changed.
"Sir, you're absolutely right. That burly man could probably cut thirteen or fourteen pieces! It's just that men's skin is always a bit rougher than women's." Jin Lushan felt that Jiang Lin was becoming more and more to his liking.
Jiang Lin asked curiously, "Mayor, why not fatten them up before skinning them? Wouldn't that make for more usable hides?"
Zhou Jue glared anxiously: Big brother, don't go too far!
Jin Lushan sighed: "Sir, you don't know, I've used this method before."
One more piece of skin means one more fan to make; who would complain about the money? But it won't do. Jin Lushan winked at Xue Chi: "That lord doesn't like it. Ugly ones are unacceptable, and fat ones are even worse!"
Jin Lushan covered his mouth with his hand as he said this: "She doesn't like to eat it."
Jiang Lin's expression shifted slightly.
Not long after, Jin Lushan ordered his men to retrieve two more pieces of leather from the pool.
Seeing his men handling the leather with efficiency, Jin Lushan gave them a few instructions and then left the underground palace, citing busy town affairs as the reason. Before leaving, Jin Lushan winked at a few servants, indicating that although he liked Jiang Lin, it didn't mean he trusted her, so he ordered them to guard the palace gates and prevent Jiang Lin from escaping.
Jiang Lin didn't care about any of that, because he had no intention of running away at all.
After glancing at the guards standing at the entrance of the underground palace, Jiang Lin walked towards the blood pool, squatted down, and looked at the two people in the blood pool.
Jingkang and Zhou Jue were only one meter from the shore, but neither of them could swim that distance.
The two men's bodies in the water were entangled in dense, blood-red threads. These threads, like numerous red blood vessels, pierced into Jin Kang and Zhou Jue's bodies, not only their flesh but also their very souls.
"How are you feeling? Can you still speak?" Jiang Lin's features were exquisite, and she spoke as if it were a casual chat over tea.
"I can still hold on." Jingkang's voice was extremely hoarse as he struggled to speak.
Zhou Jue: "I... can handle it too."
"Why doesn't it attack you?" Jingkang finally found an opportunity to ask this question: "Do you... know about the rules of death?"
Jiang Lin: "Jin Lushan said that underwater creatures don't like to eat ugly things, nor do they like to eat fat things. If she doesn't like me, why would she eat me?"
This answer left both Zhou Jue and Jing Kang speechless.
When did being disliked by the boss become a chance to survive?
Jiang Lin: "These three skins belong to Zhu Qingya and the others who went missing."
With obvious female genital features and thick, long hair, Chi Xuan and Su Yuning were only half right. The material of the Beauty Fan was indeed leather, but not Zhu Qingya's leather. The second-grade Beauty Fan they had snatched was the leather of Guo Xinwen's two teammates, which had disappeared on the first night.
Unfortunately, Guo Xinwen herself didn't recognize that she was peeling off her own teammate's skin.
“Zhu Qingya has been missing for a day and a night, which means it takes about 24 hours for a person to turn into skin and for their internal organs and bones to completely dissolve. Of course, the two of you definitely won’t survive 24 hours. Once your internal organs are completely eroded, you’re beyond saving.” Jiang Lin tilted his head slightly.
"You..." Jingkang's gaze was complicated. He actually wanted to ask Jiang Lin if he was willing to save them, but he couldn't bring himself to say it. After all, they were not related by blood, and if Jiang Lin was unwilling to save them, Jingkang would not blame him.
Just then, Jiang Lin took something out of his pocket.
Jingkang looked at it and found it somewhat familiar.
Jiang Lin opened the kraft paper, took out a bright yellow ginger candy, waved it in front of Jingkang, and then threw it at Jingkang like fish food.
Jingkang instinctively opened his mouth and felt the ginger flavor spreading in his mouth. Only then did he realize that this was the ginger candy he had given to Ji Xingyi!
"You're lucky to have been saved by a bag of candy." Jiang Lin's eyes curved into crescents; he was in a particularly good mood today.
Jingkang didn't understand Jiang Lin's meaning, but he sensed that Jiang Lin's smile was not malicious, so he breathed a slight sigh of relief and whispered, "Do you have any ideas?"
"You don't expect me to take down a whole group of people by myself, do you?" Jiang Lin raised an eyebrow.
Zhou Jue: "As long as the information can be transmitted, that's fine."
"You expect your teammates to save you? Aren't your teammates the ones who betrayed us?" Jiang Lin said with a contemptuous look.
Zhou Jue's breath hitched. He had considered the betrayal of the alliance by Jiang Lin and Jing Kang, but he had never imagined that he would be betrayed by Yu Ling. He had entrusted his back to his teammates without reservation, only to be pushed into the blood pool from behind by the teammate he trusted most. How ironic.
Yu Ling's account of the four people's experiences was generally correct, but he deliberately switched his own account with Jiang Lin's. Jiang Lin was the one who went to the right side chamber with Jing Kang, while Yu Ling followed Zhou Jue to the left side chamber.
If Chi Xuan had thought things through carefully at the time and hadn't been affected by the news of Zhou Jue's death, she should have been able to guess that, given Zhou Jue's vigilance, he would never have exposed his back to Jiang Lin, who wasn't on the same team.
The only person capable of launching a sneak attack on Zhou Jue is Yu Ling, whom Zhou Jue trusts.
Jiang Lin asked curiously, "Why would he betray you?"
Zhou Jue lowered his eyes and sighed: "I think it might be because of Chi Xuan."
Jiang Lin nodded: "Then you deserve it."
Zhou Jue: "..."
Jiang Lin stood up.
"Wait a minute." Zhou Jue looked a little embarrassed. "Could I have a piece of candy too? Soaking in this pool is really uncomfortable."
Jiang Lin: "..."
Jingkang: "Yes, give me two more. These candies will be gone in a few chews!"
Jiang Lin chuckled. Putting aside their strength for the moment, these two's mentality truly deserved to be the captain of a team.
Meanwhile, Chen Jiangqiao was just talking casually and didn't expect Jiang Lin to actually be living a life of luxury. He and Wang Zhe were trying to figure out how to get Shi Tou to talk.
The two men asked for a long time to no avail; it was Ji Xingyi who finally took action. He grabbed Shi Tou's hand, pressed it to the ground, and, to Shi Tou's horrified gaze, severed his little finger with a single stroke.
Ji Xingyi glanced up, and before Shi Tou could answer, she forcefully broke off another finger. After breaking three fingers, she ripped the rag out of Shi Tou's mouth: "You don't have to talk, I can continue."
Stone was so frightened he ran away in terror: "No, no, no, I'll tell you!"
Shi Tou then confessed that it was Song Erniang's idea to lure Chen Jiangqiao and Wang Zhe to the Jin residence. Anyone who was a suitable outsider would be tricked into the Jin residence. But what was to be done after being lured into the Jin residence? Shi Tou insisted that he knew nothing.
Chen Jiangqiao: "Have you ever seen any of the people you tricked into coming out?"
Stone shook his head awkwardly: "No."
Chen Jiangqiao frowned: "Have you seen their bodies?"
"No, but..." Stone hesitated.
Ji Xingyi: "But what?"
Seeing Ji Xing raise his knife, Shi Tou quickly replied, "However, I have seen some things that were brought out from inside."
At that time, Shi Tou was young and curious, so he followed Jin Lushan's men all the way to the desolate countryside, where they buried bucket after bucket of dirty things in the ground.
"It was hair with leather on, and leather gloves and stuff." After everyone left, Stone dug it out and took a look, but he vomited so much that he couldn't eat for three days.
"What are leather gloves?" Wang Zhe looked at Ji Xingyi and Chen Jiangqiao in confusion: "Leather, gloves?"